This is an analysis of the poem Not Afraid To Yell For Help that begins with:
Who and what I am...
I am....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbcXdeaXf AAedagXe cXfe fXcXX chhf eb ccXf gigdcXfXXh XaXii eXhi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,4,5,4,2,4,10,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 11 111111 101001 011001010 111100111 0101011101 101 0100111110 011101010010 11111 11 01001010 10101110100 1101111 00101110111 11110 111110011 11101010100 001010010 111111010 1010010010 111100111 0111001 11 11011 0111101 110010011001 101 1 11110 101 0111110011 1 1101000010010 1110101010010 011 111011 111111 1101 1 1101 1111111111 0100101110 1111010111 011001010100011 11011 1001 01011100111 01 10101101 1111110 111001 110111010110 111001 01
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines am is repeated).
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